Rod Leaver Chairman

Rod Leaver provides considerable expertise to clients requiring strategic development, training programmes and management coaching, recruitment and selection services, change programmes and distribution improvements. He has an outstanding record in the UK and globally, successfully building thousands-strong sales teams and creating industry award-nominated training and recruitment programmes.

Prior to joining Verridian in 1997, Rod’s career spanned 30 years in Financial Services including Managing Director of Lincoln Financial Group and Sales Director at Commercial Union.

Rod has many outside interests and is Chairman of the Roses Theatre Trust Tewkesbury. He is married with five children and five grandchildren.

Malik Hossain CFO/COO

Malik Hossain has successfully created retail outlets, restaurants and an internet service company, in addition to management consulting for some of the UK’s largest PLCs. Malik has raised significant funds for several charities by running marathons and riding his Harley Davidson Fatboy throughout Europe and Africa. He has recently returned from ‘Enduro-Africa’, a bike marathon, covering over 1000 miles off road that raised over £300,000 for charity, and enjoyed some special royal patronage.

He is a keen golfer, cricketer and musician, who enjoys shooting and flying single engine aeroplanes. Malik has two children and is married to a management consultant.

Robert Brine Sales Director

Robert Brine is an extremely capable motivator with strong interpersonal skills at all levels and, he is highly accomplished within people development, regulated sales and management environments. Particularly adept at conveying communication techniques, product knowledge and process models, Robert specialises in designing and delivering client training programmes. Prior to joining Verridian in 2002, he held senior training and competency, management development and, sales roles for major organisations including Australian Mutual Provident.

Bill Tomlin Recruitment Director

Bill Tomlin has spent over 20 years in management development and recruitment. He led management development at Legal & General before running recruitment for Barclays Financial Planning and Barclays Wealth. Bill's experience working Client side has provided him with the essential experience and contacts needed to run a recruitment business. In addition to a first degree in Politics he has formal post graduate qualifications in marketing as well as being CIPD qualified.

Bill is firmly focused on growing the recruitment business by expanding core markets and building new market capabilities, he is heavily engaged in our national recruitment drive as well as building an entirely new recruitment capability operating from our newly opened Russian office in Moscow.